SOCIALLY WEAK VICTIMS Elfina Sahetapy

1. SOCIALLY WEAK VICTIMSElfina Sahetapy Victimology Course University of Indonesia July 2011

2. Concept of Victim • Thomas L.Underwood in a social concept, victim may be something that is difficult to define, but you know it when you see it.

3. Situation in Indonesia • Poverty is not merely a problem in Indonesia but it has becomes a central issue in Developing Countries that affects their existence. • In Indonesia, poverty becomes a critical issue during a Presidential election, where all presidential candidates always embody the matter of poverty eradication to get votes.

4. DATA • Central Statistic Bureau has indicated that the amount of poor people, or people with monthly per capita expenditures under the poverty line, in Indonesia has achieved 30.02 million people in March 2011 (12,49%), decreasing 1,00 million (0,84%) compared to the amount in March 2010 as much as 31,02% (13,33 %). If World Bank’s standard of 2 USD per day is used, then almost 50% of Indonesian people would fall under the category of poverty.

5. The poverty line of the people who are considered poor is very sensitive to food price. Since, 74 % of the expenditure of poor people is only for food consumption.

6. POVERTY  SOCIALLY WEAK VICTIMS • According to the research it is mentioned that a person would be prone to injustice, discrimination, and crimes merely because of the weak economical condition, thus the absence of bargaining value in all sectors including justice and law, it is as seem as they have become a plague of the society, becoming marginalized and even outcast.

7. Poor people are often extorted, stolen, got their hair pulled, dragged, strangled, kicked, stepped on, forced into nudity, molested, raped, captured, and even tortured until death.

8. EXAMPLES RELATED WITH SOCIALLY WEAK VICTIMS

10. EXAMPLES IN A REAL WORLD • Khasan (86) and Sani (75), resident of Serua Indah in South Tangerang (Tangsel), Banten. For everyday drink, this poor couple have to wait for the rain. For two years, this man drinks rain water. Aside than having no drinking water, this couple also live without electricity. Every day, the old man lives by selling children toys. With the income of 10 thousand rupiah, Khasan must survive and pays for the medication of his paralyzed wife.

13. Nirmala Bonat a house keeper from NTT was tortured by her employer Yim Pek Ha (40) (TKI, 2004) by using hot water and an iron. • Kaminah (14) from Serang (2008) worked for 9 months since January until September 2009, she suffered from heavy wounds, head injury, fractured bone, fractured ribs, which caused her to be hospitalized. She was also not fed properly, she was only fed once per day in 11 PM for 9 months.

14. The house keeper comes from a poor family so she look for a job as a house keeper even tough with small payment under the absence of law, like what happened to Khamsanah (25) from Demak (case in 2008). She suffered from physical violence in form of abuse which caused a fracture in her hip and caused her to be hospitalized. She also suffered from mental abuse in forms of imprisonment, barred from neither communication nor socialization, verbal abuse. She also did not receive her payment.

15. a tragic story of a boy who were born in a poor family. A 14 year old boy, Irfan is forced to work on the street since his father only works as construction labor, whereas his mother sells food and drinks on the side of their house in Tanah Abang, Central Jakarta. As a good boy, Irfan tries his best not to add extra burden to the family’s economy by not asking for pocket money, and without his parents knowing he looks for extra income by being a “jockey” for “three in one”.

16. Surprisingly, one morning the Pamong Praja Police conducted an operation to capture these three in one jockeys. Irfan ran from the hands of these wanabe military before he got caught and dragged into a custody car. On the way, Irfan resisted by biting one the hand of the officer that held him and tried to escape. This enraged the other nine officers in the same car, and inevitably, Irfan was punched and kicked by the nine police officers. Even, some eye witnesses claimed that Irfan has been strangled by on the police officer. In the middle of the exhaustion of fighting the officers, Irfan died in the car.

17. What was happened after Irfan died ? • Not a single one of the officers was charged with crimes, even they seem to be protected with an engineered story of a different version.

19. What happened to them is much less due because they are poor. Poverty can be an accursed title. Poor people are considered as a filthy race, bane of the society or having the label of The Bearer of Social Welfare Problems (PMKS). People with poverty are people with problems.

20. What we will do ? • What we should do? • What we are going to do?

21. VICTIM SERVICES • Definition of Vicim Services according to Prof.Dussich : victim sevices are those activities which are applied in response to victimization, with the intention of relieving suffering and facilitating recovery. This includes providing information, making assessments, conducting individual interventions, enganging in social advocacy, proposing public policy and working in program development.

22. SOCIAL ADVOCACY • ENGAGING IN SOCIAL ADVOCACY has 2 forms: • standing in place of the victims to assert the delivery of needed services (such as advocacy) ; • representing victims generally as a class (such as promoting the awareness of the victim’s rights)

23. UNIVERSITY OF SURABAYA • Ubaya has composed a program whereas the primary objective is to help poor people to understand their rights as citizen that have equal rights in the eyes of the law, and possessing the same right to get a proper life. We provide them with education regarding reading and writing, knowledge regarding their rights and also free judicial assistance along with if they are involved in judicial problems be it criminal or civic.

24. TERIMAKASIH